From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 3 16:44:00 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17B8616A425 for ; Tue, 3 Jan 2006 16:44:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nagylzs@freemail.hu) Received: from smtp.enternet.hu (smtp.enternet.hu [62.112.192.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A662343D5F for ; Tue, 3 Jan 2006 16:43:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nagylzs@freemail.hu) Received: from [62.68.191.114] (helo=[172.16.0.26]) by smtp.enternet.hu with esmtpa (Exim 4) id 1EtpGN-000Ku0-Nq; Tue, 03 Jan 2006 17:43:55 +0100 Message-ID: <43B74566.9010202@freemail.hu> Date: Sun, 01 Jan 2006 03:58:46 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-2?Q?L=E1szl=F3_Nagy?= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jerry McAllister , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <200601031457.k03EvWUn017466@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <200601031457.k03EvWUn017466@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: unable to write data to disk ad0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 16:44:00 -0000 >First of all, lets get the terminology straightened out. >I think you mean to say that you want to add a partition to >your FreeBSD slice. > Yes. >Second, I presume you are booted to that drive. The system does >not allow you to modify the label on the boot drive. If it is the >only FreeBSD bootable drive you have, then you will need to boot >from the 'fixit' CD and run from that to modify the label and >add the additional partition. > > Well, finally I read the disklabel manual over again (about 3 times) and I COULD add a new partition on my boot drive! >By the way, this is in either the handbook, FAQs or the archive. > > This is typical. You know what, after googling for serveral hours, I found out that it did not let me write on the disk because the kernel had SECURELEVEL=2. This is something that should be in the manual. I appreciate that you wanted to help me, but actually you pointed me to the wrong direction two times. I suggest to change the documentation of the disklabel/bsdlabel and fdisk programs. We should add this warning: "Warning: you need to disable your kernel securelevel in /etc/rc.conf. The kernel does not allow to modify disk label information above securelevel=N." (I'm still not sure about the value of N). I'm not sure where can I add this request to change the documentation. But it would save hundreds of hours for newbies and supporters too. Best, Les